Chapter 4

Zmiyrenan’s POV

I did not know what kind of creature she was but I could smell the scent of fire in her blood and that was why I knew that she was undoubtedly mine. And I would raze the entire universe to the ground if something happened to her. I could understand that these men had brought her here and drugged her with the purpose of raping her and then assaulting her. If she proved to be good then they would take her back or she would be thrown here so that she would be dead by the next morning but my pretty little mate was something completely different.

She was a spitfire, not to mention had great skills with a knife. As I picked her up and held her close I checked her body for any other injuries and quickly healed them with my magic. Her body reacted to my fire as if she was a part of that fire and she moaned.

“Persephone,” I whispered again as I could feel that her body was trying to react but could not. Whatever drug they had given her was too strong for her body to fight. The aphrodisiac would be more effectively washed out of her body if she was treated to sex or at least multiple climaxes so that her body could release the chemicals out but I knew that whatever might be the situation and even if she was my mate I could not violate her in such manner. To watch her decimate those two men without even breaking a sweat was something I was going to remember for eternity.

She needed to wake up and she needed to fight this all by herself. There was a slight tremor in her body but I had no idea what to do. And I realised that I needed to take her to the people who will actually be able to help her. And that meant I would have to travel to the one place where I had vowed I would never return again.

The place which had used me like a beats of burden and had considered me an abomination but I had no other option.

“She needs her powers…she will die without them,” said my beast in a grumbling voice as he only reiterated what I already knew. I breathed in and touched her face again and immediately started shifting but for the first time in ever Zadrys stopped me from shifting.

“She does not have her powers, you fool, if you shift and move to realms with her then she will die anyway.”

“Then what do you suggest huh? What is your plan? To leave her here?”

“Of course not! How dare you say something stupid like that? You babbling bumbling buffoon,” seethed Zadrys as I could not help but growl. My own beast, my own part of soul was screaming obscenities at me for the sake of our mate and I still had no idea what I could do. “She is our mate for all that is holy, and we only get one, I don’t know who she is or what she is, but this I know of, if she is harmed because of your stupidity I will make sure that your human body screams and dies as I detach myself from you.”

And now he was threatening me!

I sighed and said,” I will have to change no matter what to fly her to the realm of immortals and from there we will create a portal and go to the Academy, is that acceptable? Are you amenable to that, my lord?” I said with sarcasm and he grumbled in assent.

I placed my small mate back on the floor as I shifted in an instant and made sure that she was safe from my flames and the picked her up as gently as I could. Now I wasn’t in the front seat any longer but it was Zadrys who stared at Persephone as if she was the most beautiful creature that he had ever seen.

“Her hair is like that of the spun silk!” he growled as he held a lock of her hair in his talon and I could not help but smile. That she had, and to say that she was beautiful was only going to be a gross injustice against her. I had never encountered anyone as pure as her. And if I had to describe her then all the poems that I would be speaking would pale in comparison to her so I just sighed as Zadrys picked her up as gently as he could and we started flying. It wasn’t that difficult to fly for me even after years of unuse and I soared through the sky as the wind and droplets of water touched my scales and within almost an hour I was at the place where the portal would be born to the realm of the Immortals.

Not everyone would be granted entry here unless you were too powerful, well like me, of course!

It wasn’t too far off from the place where I had found Persephone and as soon as I was before the wall I started chanting a spell that would grant me immediate access and soon the portal opened and I did not waste any time as I flew through it.

Persephone was burning up in my arms as I understood that her body was trying to fight the toxins but nothing would work until her body was cooled and ultimately she would burn from inside out.

I came upon the castle almost immediately and tried passing through the wards but the clanging sound that started in my brain and all around me hurt me so much that I groaned out loud.

“Halt! You cannot go any more…in the name of the holy gods…what the fuck is that?” said a voice as I could feel myself being pulled downwards and as soon as I hit the ground I roared so loud that the two puny human like creatures who were standing there fell on their asses and reared back up.

“Get Marcellus now!” I roared as they screamed at me in horror and I sighed. This was going to be a long night for the both of us!